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4.27.17 – Webinar: Medical Students Co-Hosted with the American Medical Student Association (AMSA)

April 17, 2017
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‘Addiction Medicine as a Subspecialty and In Practice’ WebinarCo-hosted by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) & American Medical Student Association

Thursday, April 27, 2017

5:30 pm Eastern | 2:30 pm Pacific

This webinar will discuss the need for trained addiction medicine specialists to address the treatment gap in providers, followed by a presentation with the Student Coalition on Addiction about how medical students are advocating for increased presence of addiction medicine in primary care.

Speakers:

R. Corey Waller, MD, MS, DFASAM
Senior Medical Director for Education and Policy
Camden Coalition of Healthcare ProvidersCorey Waller MD, MS, is an addiction, pain, and emergency medicine specialist in Grand Rapids, MI. He works within the Spectrum Health system, a fully integrated health system with 11 hospitals and over 1000 employed physicians. He is the Medical Director of the Spectrum Health Medical Group Center for Integrative Medicine, the Medical Staff Chief of Pain Medicine to the Spectrum Health Hospital System, the President of the Michigan Society of Addiction Medicine, as well as SUD Medical Director at Lakeshore Regional Partners (Community Mental Health-Region 3). Dr. Waller earned a Masters of Science in neuromolecular biology at Southwest Texas State University and earned his Medical Degree at the University of Texas Medical School in San Antonio. Dr. Waller completed his Emergency Medicine residency at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Dr. Waller’s special interests include understanding the biopsychosocial and financial impact of high cost complex patients, pregnant patients with a substance use disorder, and the complex interaction of pain and addiction.

Anne Marie Williams
Fourth-Year Medical Student
Harvard Medical School
Anne Marie Williams is a fourth-year medical student graduating from Harvard Medical School in May and beginning Family Medicine residency in Seattle, WA. She is passionate about treating substance use disorders in primary care and, as a member of the Massachusetts Student Coalition on Addiction, has advocated for more primary care doctors to provide office-based medication assisted treatment for opioid addiction.